Nezami Ganjavi (1141-1209) is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature.
Davis lives in Columbus, Ohio..
His other translations from Persian include The Conference of the Birds
Vis and Ramin
The Mirror of My Heart: A Thousand Years of Persian Poetry by Women
Faces of Love: Hafez and the Poets of Shiraz ; and Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings , one of The Washington Post \'s ten best books of 2006.
A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an emeritus professor of Persian at Ohio State University, he has published more than twenty books.
Dick Davis (translator/introducer) is the foremost English-speaking scholar of medieval Persian poetry in the West and our finest translator of Persian poetry ( The Times Literary Supplement ).
His introduction of an element of mysticism into his romance narratives is an innovation that was followed by most of his many imitators.
He was married three times; all three of his wives predeceased him, and, rarely for a Persian poet of his time, he wrote with apparently heartfelt and surprisingly personal eloquence about his affection for them and his sorrow at losing them.
A Sunni Muslim born to a Persian father and a Kurdish mother, he lived most of his life in his hometown of Ganjeh, in present-day Azerbaijan.
Nezami Ganjavi (1141-1209) is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature
